Song of Songs 4
1 How beautiful you are, my darling! How beautiful! Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats descending Mount Gilead.
2 Your teeth are like a flock of freshly shorn sheep coming up from the washing place; every one has its twin, and none is without a lamb.
3 Your lips are like a scarlet thread, and your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a slice of pomegranate behind your veil.
4 Your neck is like the tower of David, built in tiers. A thousand shields hang on it, all the shields of the warriors.
5 Your two breasts are like two fawns, twin gazelles grazing among the lilies.
6 Before the day breathes and the shadows flee, I will go to the mountain of myrrh and the hill of frankincense.
7 You are altogether beautiful, my darling; there is no flaw in you.
8 Come with me from Lebanon, bride; come with me from Lebanon. Look down from the heights of Amana, from the heights of Senir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens and the mountains of leopards.
9 You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with a single glance of your eyes, with one turn of your necklace.
10 How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! Your love is better than wine, and the fragrance of your perfumes better than every spice.
11 Your lips drip honey from the comb, bride; honey and milk are beneath your tongue, and the scent of your garments is like the scent of Lebanon.
12 A garden locked away is my sister, my bride; a spring shut up, a sealed fountain.
13 Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates with choice fruits, henna flowers with nard.
14 Nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of frankincense tree; myrrh and aloes, with all the finest spices.
15 A spring of gardens, a well of living water, streams flowing down from Lebanon.
16 Awake, north wind; come, south wind! Blow through my garden, that its fragrances may flow. Let my beloved come to his garden and eat its choice fruits.
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